“Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
Seneca wrote his Letters to Lucilius in the final years of his life, in retirement from Nero's court, knowing his time was short — Nero would order his death within months. He had spent decades watching powerful men, himself included, squander their hours on trivialities.
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